'I work at a movie theater and this is a regular occurrence...': 10+ entitled moviegoers who ruined the experience for everyone else

Let 2025 be the year we get movie theater etiquette under control. Seriously, there is no better illustration of the decline of basic courtesy and self-awareness in public places over the years than at the movies. It used to be that the most annoying thing you might experience after the lights begin to dim was the crinkling of candy wrappers, the crunching of popcorn, and the late arrival of other moviegoers. We come to this place—as Nicole Kidman says in her iconic AMC ad—to expect that kind of behavior. We have since normalized it at the cinema and cannot be upset when it occurs.

However, we can be upset about the advent of other unnecessary behavior people seem to be exhibiting in these spaces, thereby ruining the moviegoing experience for everyone else and convincing more and more folks to just stay home and stream whatever subpar streaming movie has been released instead. This kind of behavior includes using phones and laptops (yes, laptops) during the movie—a subject of online discourse that became especially noisy during the opening weekend of Wicked. Then, there are the people who take their shoes and even socks off and put them up behind the seats of other customers. There are even moviegoers who cannot help but sing along during musical numbers or leave their trash everywhere like this is their bedroom. 

Keep scrolling below for this collection of mildly infuriating moviegoing experiences. For more content like this, take a look at this list of adulting mishaps.

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